Woodville Palace
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Faulty Palace (Towers)
We stayed at the Woodville Palace in Shimla - a beautiful 1930's colonial house.
Upon opening our toiletries in the bathroom - the change in air pressure due to the altitude (2100 feet) caused various items to explode - opening a stick of roll-on deodorant proved almost deadly with the ball blasting out of it, creating a …
Shimla at last
On the train north from Delhi, signs of affluence. Approaching Chandigarh, the four-lane highway beside us has toll booths, our first in India. As we leave Chandigarh we see a complex of ultra-modern buildings equal to anything we saw in China.
We got to Shimla seven hours behind schedule, by a harrowing four-hour taxi ride from Kalka into …
PS3 and Spanish poetry
Just out of the bathtub my phone rang. "The owner requests your company in the lounge at 9:30". Well that's another first and of course I accepted the invitation. We spoke for hours, learning about each other's countries, drank the best beer I've ever had in India and... another first... I ate meat. The palace was just incredible. I was taken on a …
Surprises in Shimla
My last night in Delhi turned out rather exciting in many ways. First of all because the travel agent who was supposed to guide me to my bus was late, which resulted in an... interesting... 20 minute ride through Delhi on a motorcycle. This guy was going so fast my contact lenses began to rotate - or maybe that was just my struggling between the …
Toy trains and back to the cold
... night train back to Delhi. As we had no luggage to worry about, we decided to experience travelling in a lower class on the sleeper train (at my request!) and I now accept Shenal is right when she says we need to travel in the higher class – I did not sleep thanks to screaming children and others constantly getting on and off the train throughout the night. Our return to Delhi was followed by a long ...